How do I migrate one mac to another and have it look just like it did on the other machine on the one I migrated it to?

I need to migrate a mac to another and have kept my backups current with timemachine. I connected the HD with the time machine back ups to the machine I'm migrateing to and used the migratiation assastiant but now i have 2 accounts and no permissions to access the account I migrated. I just imagined I would use the migration assastiant and afterwards I'd be looking at the mac I transfered/migrated. What did I do wrong or how can I achieve the desired effect?
Thank you in advance. Jay

i have 2 accounts and no permissions to access the account I migrated.
What do you mean by this? Have you tried to login to these accounts?
If you come up automatically to an account, you can log off this account then login to a new account.
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